Nov 24, 2012

This week Ed Shadle, Omar Chramosta, John Winchester, Jon Higley and Keith Zanghi spent most of the day working on the North American Eagle™

Ed & Omar closing the canopy

Most of the day was spent working on the removal of the hydraulic pump and steering control unit. Following our test session at the Alvord Desert, one of the improvements was to make the system more reliable. The original design had nearly 50 feet of hydraulic lines feeding the steering control unit. After our modifications we should be able to cut that to less then 15 feet. We feel these changes will drastically improve the efficiency of the system. Parts are on order and next Saturday will see us starting to put the system back together.

Col Joe sent us a link to a real cool music video from the Red Bull Stratos project. During the record jump, Col Joe talked about Felix’s guardian angel protecting him. Click on the photo above and listen to the new Jamayl Maleek No Limit music video.

Christmas Breakfast December 8th

NAE Team members… be sure to block off the morning of Saturday December 8th. Our annual Christmas breakfast will be served at the America’s Car Museum Senior Center. Look for an email announcement from Ed.

CFD Webinar now on YouTube!

Click on the YouTube link above to watch the webinar

If you missed the live webinar on Wednesday November 7th, you can now watch it on YouTube. Sponsored by Pointwise Software and CEI EnSight Software, listen to NAE’s aerodynamicist Darren Grove, along with Chris Sideroff, PhD from Pointwise and Kevin Coburn from CEI, talk about the Computation Fluid Dynamic studies taking place on the North American Eagle™

The webinar is highly technical with a target audience in the aerospace industry, but non-technical viewers should be able to follow along and gain insight into the highly complex North American Eagle™ project.

Ping Fu (next to Ed) and her sister Hong – Their story in a new book,Bend, Not Break.

“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.”

—Ping Fu’s “Shanghai Papa”

Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student.

Ping Fu also knows what it’s like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year. To be a friend and mentor to some of the best-known names in tech­nology. To build some of the coolest new products in the world. To give speeches that inspire huge crowds. To meet and advise the president of the United States.

It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of a life in two worlds.

Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler’s checks and three phrases of English: thank you, hello, and help.

Yet Ping persevered, and the hard-won lessons of her childhood guided her to success in her new home­land. Aided by her well-honed survival instincts, a few good friends, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into someone she never thought she’d be—a strong, independent, entrepreneurial leader. A love of problem solving led her to computer science, and Ping became part of the team that created NCSA Mosaic, which became Netscape, the Web browser that forever changed how we access information. She then started a company, Geomagic, that has literally reshaped the world, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repair­ing NASA spaceships.

Bend, Not Break depicts a journey from imprisonment to freedom, and from the dogmatic anticapitalism of Mao’s China to the high-stakes, take-no-prisoners world of technology start-ups in the United States. It is a tribute to one woman’s courage in the face of cruelty and a valuable lesson on the enduring power of resilience.

Get Connected with NAE Mobile Apps

Updates for NAE Mobile are also now available to connect with the new website. These updates include improved access to Project Updates as well as all of the other pages. Available exclusively on the iPad is the ability to shop through the Gear Store for your favorite items. The iPad version will also now rotate to any rotation for optimal viewing.

iPhone 5 App is now available. Click on the photo above to download the App

Got an iPad? Get the NAE App for Free!

The NAE App works on iPad Mini too!

New Lenovo Video

Lenovo recently released a new video featuring the North American Eagle™ . The NAE™ scenes were edited by Steve Wallace. Team NAE™ uses Lenovo ThinkStations and ThinkPad for aerodynamic and engineering analysis. Click on the photo below and watch this exciting video!

About

The North American Eagle project began as nothing more than an idea. That idea was to take a jet fighter, and turn it into the fastest racing machine in history. Together, Ed Shadle and Keith Zanghi founded a project with a goal to go supersonic, and break the World Land Speed Record of 763 MPH. Along the way, countless people have joined together to push the boundaries of speed, to see just how fast this car can go.

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